All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

  • -- Robert Louis Stevenson 罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森

所有的语言,无论是书面的还是口头的,都是一种死亡的语言,直到它找到一个愿意并有准备的听众。

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I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless. But his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did.

我从来没有真正说过很多关于整个事件,这是无休止的。但他的演讲是一个非常聪明的演讲,关于父亲不是可有可无的,没有人比我更赞同这一点。

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

单词——它们是如此的无辜和无力,就像站在字典里,在一个知道如何将它们结合在一起的人的手中,它们对善恶的力量是多么的强大。

I want to speak for people that may not feel like they're being spoken for at the moment. And I want to make a connection between the world around us and the charts.

我想为那些此刻感觉自己没有被人说话的人说话。我想把我们周围的世界和图表联系起来。

I've been painting and drawing and taking pictures as long as I've been writing music - and I've actually been drawing longer than I've been writing music.

自从我开始写音乐以来,我就一直在画画,画画,拍照——事实上,我画画的时间比我写音乐的时间还长。

The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.

目前世界上第一次修订的国家总数是一个。你们保证了言论自由。其他国家没有。

If what we see is doubtful, how can we believe what is spoken behind the back.

如果我们看到的是可疑的,我们怎么能相信背后说的话。